The COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing in Nigeria: ignorance or defiance

The severity of the novel 2019 Coronavirus leaves much trepidation, anxiety and desperate measures are taken to curb the pandemic. Such measures according to WHO include hygiene, isolation and social distancing. If clustering of people is considered a major catalyst in the spread of corona virus, so...

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Autores principales: Agusi, Ebere Roseann, Ijoma, Sandra Ifynneke, Nnochin, Chizuruoke Stephen, Njoku-Achu, Nnaemeka Onyekachi, Nwosuh, Chika Ignatius, Meseko, Clement Adebajo
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Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33623577
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.2.23649
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Ijoma, Sandra Ifynneke
Nnochin, Chizuruoke Stephen
Njoku-Achu, Nnaemeka Onyekachi
Nwosuh, Chika Ignatius
Meseko, Clement Adebajo
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Ijoma, Sandra Ifynneke
Nnochin, Chizuruoke Stephen
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description The severity of the novel 2019 Coronavirus leaves much trepidation, anxiety and desperate measures are taken to curb the pandemic. Such measures according to WHO include hygiene, isolation and social distancing. If clustering of people is considered a major catalyst in the spread of corona virus, social distancing is therefore important for its control. But compliance has remained a concern, especially in Nigeria. We examine the concept and global trends in social distancing in infectious disease control and the negative feedback on public health as revealed in current body of knowledge from news media and other literatures. The risks associated with failure to comply with social distancing as a result of ignorance or defiance are highlighted.
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spelling pubmed-78757442021-02-22 The COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing in Nigeria: ignorance or defiance Agusi, Ebere Roseann Ijoma, Sandra Ifynneke Nnochin, Chizuruoke Stephen Njoku-Achu, Nnaemeka Onyekachi Nwosuh, Chika Ignatius Meseko, Clement Adebajo Pan Afr Med J Commentary The severity of the novel 2019 Coronavirus leaves much trepidation, anxiety and desperate measures are taken to curb the pandemic. Such measures according to WHO include hygiene, isolation and social distancing. If clustering of people is considered a major catalyst in the spread of corona virus, social distancing is therefore important for its control. But compliance has remained a concern, especially in Nigeria. We examine the concept and global trends in social distancing in infectious disease control and the negative feedback on public health as revealed in current body of knowledge from news media and other literatures. The risks associated with failure to comply with social distancing as a result of ignorance or defiance are highlighted. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7875744/ /pubmed/33623577 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.2.23649 Text en © Ebere Roseann Agusi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nnochin, Chizuruoke Stephen
Njoku-Achu, Nnaemeka Onyekachi
Nwosuh, Chika Ignatius
Meseko, Clement Adebajo
The COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing in Nigeria: ignorance or defiance
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33623577
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.2.23649
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